Until Chen Zhixian and the three inspectors accompanied Lu Shangshu out of the side hall, everyone stopped to greet each other.

Seeing that the old man of the book walked a few steps, he pointed to the round wheel fan blade and said, "This thing creaks, and it is very pleasant to smell." ”

As soon as Chen Zhixian waved his hand, some servants removed these round-wheeled wooden fans. Not long after, the curator found more than 20 people, each holding a large fan, standing behind the ice basin and fanning it quietly, keeping the banquet cool and without the sound of the wooden structure.

The guests and hosts then took their seats, and the accompanying guests also sat down one after another, with a table in front of each person and a maid next to them.

After ordering a few tunes, the old man opened the table to the sound of orchestral silk and bamboo.

Li You's position can really be called the last seat to accompany him, and the keeper of the wine beside him is waiting diligently, and he bows his eyebrows and pleases his eyes. Li You saw that she was petite and delicate, her eyebrows were picturesque, and she asked, "Which one is my sister?" ”

The Ji family replied: "The slave family is the ingots of Fish Scale Lane, and it is really a blessing to be able to serve Mr. Chen today." ”

Li You seems to have heard of this name, and he is probably also famous in this city. Tonight, it's impossible to find some crooked melons and cracked dates to make up the numbers. He praised a sentence on his lips: "The name is like its person, it is really like the little silver ingot with white flowers, and it teaches people to be affectionate in their hands." ”

Yuan Bao'er covered her mouth and smiled: "Mr. praised it falsely." The slave family wants to be a host, please don't dislike it. ”

Another one to be a host... Seeing that Yuan Bao'er was small and cute, Li You didn't completely refuse, he just said that he would go when he was free.

The main table served several large dishes and soups one after another, such as roast goose, venison, roast duck, whole sheep, steamed pork belly, etc., and the servants shared them with everyone; The wine was also toasted a few times, and more than a dozen refined side dishes were served on each table.

Lu Shangshu asked some about the customs and customs of the county in recent years, and said angrily: "I have been nominated by the emperor list, received the grace of heaven, and have been traveling for more than 30 years. Now the hair is all white, the age is six, and the thing is not a person. I still remember the time when I left home in the past, my parents and friends were sent to the ferry, all of them burst into tears, choked and couldn't speak, and I was young and frivolous. ”

All the officials and gentry who are qualified to speak, including a few old friends who have been invited, comforted and complimented them together, and only said that the old man returned to his hometown in fine clothes and returned to his hometown with honor, and he could be comforted.

However, Lu Shangshu changed the topic and said: "I often have the thought of tired birds thinking about the nest and returning to the roots. I remember that the scenery of Feiyan Rock is beautiful, I want to build a house under Feiyan Rock, and I have the joy of visiting the mountains and forests when I am old. It's a pity that most of this place is Guantian, and I want to bother Chen's father to plan one or two, so that I can travel in my old age. ”

Li You is not qualified to interject casually, he is happy to laugh with Yuan Bao'er, and occasionally secretly eats some tofu. Suddenly, he heard in his ears that Lu Shangshu wanted to build a residence under Feiyan Rock, and he was very surprised.

Lu Shangshu's intention to encroach on Guantian is nothing, there are many people who do this kind of thing. But that Feiyanji has been scheduled to be a place to blow up mountains and take stones, how can it live in people? Even if the stone pond project was completed and the house was built, it was already full of devastation and rocks everywhere at that time, and Lu Shangshuken lived in such a place?

Chen Zhixian got up and bowed and said: "The lower official committee really can't afford to be the word father, this matter will be carefully discussed after the banquet, and it will definitely make the boss happy." This kind of celebration and auspicious moment, of course, Chen Zhixian will not directly refuse the scenery, but can only deal with it vaguely first, and then make plans afterwards.

Master Huang and Li You glanced at each other, and they were not good. Lu Shangshu is a veteran of the three dynasties, although he did not enter the cabinet, his words are also very weighty, and it is not easy to offend. But this is not the place to discuss the matter, so I have to press and not mention it.

The feast continued, and the dishes on each table were changed. At this time, it was past the opening stage of the ceremonial response, and everyone went to restraint, and the scene became cheerful.

Lu Shangshu was half-drunk and chanted a poem: "Thousands of miles of wind and dust, wandering all the way." The old garden is full of spring grass, and the guest office is cool at night. The dream breaks through the third month, and the flowers bloom in two places. To Shi indefinitely, empty sideburns cream. ”

Everyone had already prepared, one by one.

Li You copied a poem and said: "It's always a eunuch, and there is no end to it." The guest is sad and even the shadow of the goose, and the hometown dream falls into the stirrup. Xiaoyue would rather stay at night, where is the lonely cloud. The vast smoke and water, the autumn colors are on the leaves. ”

Although it is not a superb poem, at this banquet, singing and Lu Shangshu's poem is already the best during the banquet, and it can also win a few applause from others. The capital is worthy of Li Dianshi, and he can really write good poems.

Lu Shangshu looked at Li You for a long time, and asked Chen Zhixian: "I am in Suzhou Mansion, everyone will sing who will turn the bleak song of Yuefu and life if it is only as first seen, and you can still hear some Mei two words, the capital is composed by the fellow townsman named Li Youzhi, but this person?" ”

"That's the man." Chen Zhixian replied.

Lu Shangshu praised: "Although my Xujiang is known as Xiaogusu, but the people in the city often despise the culture and education of our township, Li Dianshi has greatly increased his face, and taught the words and songs of the Xujiang people to be sung in the city of Gusu, which is really a great pleasure in my county!" As he spoke, he raised the cup in his hand and gestured to Li You.

Shangshu toasted, how dare Li You take a big one, immediately got up and bowed, picked up his wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.

Everyone followed the topic of Lu Shangshu to discuss the good words plagiarized by Li You, naturally they were praised one by one, everyone applauded, and the female musicians at the bottom also sang Li You's words.

A middle-aged literati commented: "The first two magnolia flower orders and mulberry picking are both superb words, I listened to it and looked at the words and sentences written by the contemporaries, so tasteless!" Only some of the differences found in the words of the Song Dynasty in the previous dynasties can be compared. ”

Li You didn't know this, and Yuan Bao'er next to him reminded in Li You's ear: "The slave family knows, this is Yan Juren, Master Yan, the father of Yan Xiucai who doesn't deal with you, Mr. should be careful." Looking at it this way, this Yan Juren is really a little similar to Yan Xiu.

As for the last two poems, Eyeing Mei and Huanxi Sha, although they are also well written, they are inevitably worse than the first two ones. ”

Li You listened, what Master Yan said so far is quite objective.

Master Yan continued: "Today, I heard Li Dianshi's new poems, which are one level worse than the next two poems. ”

What exactly did he want to say, Li You faintly guessed a few points.

Sure enough, Master Yan finally shook his head and sighed, and concluded: "Li Dianshi's skills stop here, and Jiang Lang is exhausted?" It's a pity, it's a pity, after all, the lack of confidence and foundation for reading is less, and the occasional flash of inspiration can't last. May Li Dianshi take Zhongyong as a warning. Or is it just to deal with Boss Lu at will? ”

This is both demeaning and provocative, and everyone at the banquet is thinking about how to answer the word. Yao Xing'er, who was sitting next to Lu Shangshu, suddenly retorted: "Master Yan's intention is that the slave family does not dare to agree, in a lifetime, no one can be the first to write a good story, but there are one or two thousand eons of life in vain." ”

No one could have imagined that Yao Xing'er, who had a grudge against Li Dianshi, was the first to come out, and the last time Li You wrote a crooked poem to scold Yao Xing'er, a few people were present to see it with their own eyes. There is ambiguity... If you want to ask Jiang Mei how thin she is, it really wasn't written in vain...

Lu Shangshu seemed to be smiling, bickering was just a banquet game in his eyes, there were really not many literati who didn't fight or argue or quarrel in recent years, but Yan Juren was not convinced by Li You's talent to find a venue. At this time, he looked at Li You with great interest to see how this well-known official would respond.